Employee Benefits

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Benefits

We are a friendly and professional place to work; a place where you and your contribution are valued.

We offer a wide range of benefits; some come with career progression others are there to recognise loyalty to the firm and help you balance the demands of busy modern life.  We regularly review our benefits to ensure that we remain competitive and are moving with the times, reflecting what our employees need and value. 

We appreciate that it is a choice deciding where to dedicate your skills and attributes through work.  Weighing up where you feel you can do your best work, achieve your career aspirations and how to balance your work and personal time are all factors in choosing the place you feel is the best fit.  Benefits are no doubt an important piece in this jigsaw. 

First impressions count and we want all of our new starters to have a warm and supportive welcome;

  • Full induction and training programme
  • Dedicated Welcome Support Meetings with a member of the People & Talent team over your first 6 months
  • Individualised ‘buddy support’ to help you get to grips with your role, our procedures and generally help you to settle in – including finding your way around the office, navigating legal research tools, finding a particular document and the best places to go for lunch

Our Benefits include:

  • A competitive regional salary
  • Fee earner discretionary incentivisation scheme
  • 33 days paid holiday including Bank/Public Holidays
  • Birthday Leave – an extra day paid holiday to celebrate your special day
  • Free Will writing
  • Free Conveyancing
  • Supported fee earner networking events and initiatives
  • Discretionary leave to help when arrangements outside of work don’t go to plan
  • Financial support towards the cost of studying relevant qualifications and enhancing your career progression
  • Life cover immediately on joining paying x4 salary
  • Employer contributory pension with the option to contribute via salary exchange
  • Cycle-to-work scheme
  • Hybrid working allowing you flexibility to choose where to work
  • Employee assistance support offering free counselling including for mental health, bereavement and financial concerns
  • Thank you vouchers at Christmas
  • Employee recruitment referral scheme; a bonus paid for introducing a new employee to the firm
  • Active employee led CSR programme focusing on charity fundraising for our employee-nominated charities and volunteer opportunities for charity and local partners.
  • Paid Volunteer Time for all staff
  • Numerous social events allowing teams to get to together, celebrate achievements and simply get to know each other a little better making for even more cohesive working
    • Breakfast Club where bi-monthly we share a social breakfast
    • Friday@5 to get together with other people in the office
    • Annual quiz night, Christmas Party & Christmas team lunches
    • Summer rounders, cricket & walking events
    • Employee led interest clubs including book club and football where we challenge local businesses to take on our winning team and forge lasting relationships.
  • Ongoing professional and wider skills training with unlimited access to online webinar resources and a programme of scheduled training sessions each year
  • Career development conversations to support your progression scheduled as part of our Development and Performance Review structure
  • A genuine culture of hard work, professionalism and support

*Some benefits are subject to eligibility/other criteria, are non-contractual and may vary or be changed

Our holistic approach